News from Booksurge.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Guide Reveals Florida's Favorite "Off-the-Beaten-Path" Restaurants Traveling in Florida? Care about your taste buds as well as your tan? Your mojito( aCuban cocktail) as well as the water temperature? If so, Joyce LaFray's Big Guide to Florida Restaurants may be the book you're searching for. This newly revised and expanded edition covers every corner of the state, from top to bottom, from the casual Bahamian eateries of the Keys and funky hotspots of SouthBeach, to the giddy environs of Disney. Always on the look out for the places where the locals go to dine, LaFray shares what other Florida guides overlook, off-the-beaten path eateries that serve up the best values. Such a diverse population as Florida's creates a fusion of cuisines: French, Thai, Vietnamese, Greek, Seminole Indian, to name a few. A crossroads of island cuisines offersmenus that draw from African, Jamaican, Spanish, Cuban and numerous other influences. Such a melting pot demands a critic with a discerning palate. Is that red snapper fresh? Jerk pork cooked with authentic spices? Joyce LaFray, cookbook author and Florida restaurant critic for 35 years has searched every nook and cranny and shares with you the "best of the best." LaFray is the author of over twenty guides and cookbooks, including Cuba Cocina! The Tantalizing Flavors of Cuba, Tropic Cooking and Key Lime Cooking. Her recipes forplantains will be featured in the May 2006 issue of Bon Appetit Magazine. The Facts: Pages: 320 Size: 4 1⁄2" x 10," laminated cover, 101 Road Trips, Florida Recipes, Food Glossary International Standard Book Number: 1-4196-0799-5

Get your snorkel, face mask, and flippers unpacked! Here's your best tour of Florida's most famous seafood recipes, from ktichens of famous restaurants across the Sunshine State. Author Lafray includes valuable tips on catching, buying and storing seafood and each recipe has been given to Joyce by Florida's best chefs and cooks. This is the #1 seafood book in Florida and eagerly sought after for each individual chapters on how to to prepare finfish, shellfish, shrimp, oysters, sushi, you name it! Joyce LaFray, acknowledged to be one of Florida's foremost food experts, has earned plaudits for her ability to educate and entertain in a cornucopia of media settings. Featured in Following That Key Lime in The Food Network, Joyce is considered the expert on Key Lime in the United States. Restaurant reviewer, author, lecturer, and editor, Joyce has developed a rapidly growing, enthusiastic group of fans who follow her food paths in Florida and throughout the country. Her readers have faithfully followed her exploits and adventures in the fields of food, wine, and travel, via a myriad number of cookbooks and restaurant guides. Joyce is a frequent contributor to Gourmet Retailer, Where and many other food and travel magazines. When food writers visit Florida they call Joyce for advice on which restaurants to visit...from the New York Times...to Food & Wine...to Bon Appetit...to USA Today. Joyce's talents have played a major role in the organization and success of well known functions such as The Tampa Tribune's Taste of Florida. Macy's popular statewide Chef's Tour,Miami's International Book Fair, and the National Kahlua Bake-off. Corporately, she has been spokesperson for Goldkist (Young and Tender Chicken), Appleton Rum, Dining Out and Publix Supermarkets. Some of the honors and awards bestowed on her efforts include a 1995 proclamation from the Mayor of the City of Miami for her excellence and dedication to food journalism and a Joyce LaFray Day,Best Cracker Cookbook Publisher,from Macy's Department Stores, certificates of appreciation from the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and Best of State Award for her contribution to Florida's Adult Education Program.

Tampa Bay Magazine is the area's lifestyle magazine. For over 25 years it has been featuring the places, people and pleasures of Tampa Bay Florida, that includes Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. You won't know Tampa Bay until you read Tampa Bay Magazine.

Represents an intermingling of African, Spanish, French, British, Indian, Dutch, and North American customs and techniques. The common ground is the raw materials -- fresh fruit, herbs, and vegetables; fresh seafood; and the spices and seasonings. Recipes were collected from native islanders, Florida "crackers," old and new restauranteurs, and supplied by the author.

This work represents a dramatic call to recognize, celebrate, and conserve the great diversity of foods that give North America the distinctive culinary identity that reflects its multi-cultural heritage. Included are recipes and folk traditions associated with 100 of the continent's rarest food plants and animals.